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Me TV was developed for the modern digital lounge room with a PC for a media centre that is capable of normal PC tasks (web surfing, word processing and watching TV). It is not designed to be a full-blown media centre such as MythTV but will integrate well with an existing GNOME desktop.

The name Me TV (technically pronounced "Mi TV") comes from Australian slang for "My TV". Hence, "it's TV for me computer"is Australian slang for "it's TV for my computer". The pattern can be followed for all instances of "My", such as "Me dog", "Me ute" and of course "Me beer".

Me TV's features currently include:

* Completely mouse driven

* Current and future program information

* Instant record

* Double-click fullscreen

* DVB-T/C/S support

* Very simple installation and set up

Setting up Me TV

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Create ~/.me-tv/ if it does not already exist:

mkdir ~/.me-tv/

Now to install dvb-utils to get the TV channels:

sudo apt-get install dvb-utils

Once dvb-utils is installed we need to scan for TV channels and this is how we do that:

scan /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/dvb-t/au-Adelaide > ~/.me-tv/channels.conf

Note:

You will have to ls the /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/dvb-t/ directory for your location and substitute au-Adelaide for your location.

Final step now is to launch Me TV:

Applications / Sound and Video / Me TV

Using Me TV

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Video Window

* Double left click the video window to go to fullscreen, this will automatically close the EPG if it was open

* Use the middle or right button to toggle the display of the EPG window

EPG Window

* Click on a channel link to change to that channel.

* Click on an program link to see details about that program (event).

* You can resize the EPG window. There's a small handle just between the video window and the EPG window.

Notes

* The status bar is normally hidden when in fullscreen but is visible when the EPG window is open

* The status bar displays the current channel or will tell you where Me TV is recording to

* While Me TV is running it will inhibit the screen saver.

* Me TV will hide the mouse pointer on the video window after roughly three seconds.

* Me TV fetches EPG data in the background while you are watching TV

* Me TV will remember the last channel that you watched when starting up

* Me TV will remember if it was muted when it was last exited and will try to restore that state

* Me TV will start 'Always on top' unless configured otherwise

* Me TV will not purge the events from the EPG until you restart the program. This may change in the future.

* Me TV has not been tested with radio stations.

* Me TV can be configured to record to a different directory

* Recorded Me TV files can be viewed with many applications such as Xine, gxine, totem and MPlayer.

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